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Wayne Spillett, lived in Belgium (2007-2011) Updated January 28, 2019 French is widely spoken, France is one of the largest countries in Europe, big chunks of Africa speak French, as do Quebec and parts of the Caribbean; so it's not hard to live your entire life as a French speaker and still travel around. If your language is Flemish, you can communicate with people in the Netherlands and parts of South Africa, beyond that you need to learn other languages. In western Europe, you will find many speakers of French, Spanish, Italian and German who speak only their native language, their countries are large enough that they can always find work and have decent social lives, but speakers of lesser-spoken languages native to smaller countries need another language to give them additional opportunity. There is one more factor at play, which is also connected to the number of speakers a language has: film and television. Globally-popular entertainment gets dubbed into majority languag...

Obituaries Chick Corea, Jazz Fusion Pioneer, Has Died Of Cancer At 79 February 11, 20215:02 PM ET The keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea — one of the most revered figures in contemporary jazz, but an artist whose work spanned fusion to classical — died on Feb. 9 at age 79. Dan Muse from Chick Corea Productions confirmed his death to NPR on Thursday afternoon. Corea's team also reported his death on social media, saying that he died from "a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently." No other details about his illness and death were shared. A pianist whose crisp touch and clarion tone were always buoyed by an effervescent way with rhythm, Corea loomed large in a jazz landscape that branched in many directions. His 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs has long been a touchstone for the modern acoustic piano trio, a format to which he often returned; in 2019 he released another album in that vein, Trilogy 2, with bassist Christian McBrid...

De quelle couleur est le sexe des hommes noirs? Dans "Si Beale Street pouvait parler" le nouveau film de Barry Jenkins, j’ai été frappée par la manière nouvelle dont il donne à voir la masculinité noire. 951 Isabelle Boni-ClaverieScénariste, réalisatrice et écrivain La virilité des hommes noirs ou, pour dire les choses crûment, ce qu’ils font de leur sexe, est au cœur... PHOTO MISE À DISPOSITION PAR MARS DISTRIBUTION La virilité des hommes noirs ou, pour dire les choses crûment, ce qu’ils font de leur sexe, est au cœur même de leur représentation au cinéma. On évite généralement de le dire de manière aussi explicite. Mais les images sont là, parlantes.  Cela est sans doute plus vrai encore du cinéma américain, né dans une société ségréguée où sévissaient les lois Jim Crow, interdisant toute relation entre Noirs et Blancs. Le film fondateur du cinéma américain, "Naissance d'une Nation", de D.W. Griffith, un chef d'œuvre formel à l'idéologie nauséabonde, ...

Kathryn Bigelow, la réalisatrice de Detroit, film sur le racisme aux États-Unis, est blanche, et c'est tout sauf un problème En France, on n'a pas de films comme "Detroit" (ou "Selma" ou "Twelve Years a slave") mais "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu?" Isabelle Boni-ClaverieScénariste, réalisatrice et écrivain Kathryn Bigelow, la réalisatrice de Detroit, film sur le racisme aux États-Unis, est blanche, et c'est... MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS Kathryn Bigelow, la réalisatrice de Detroit, film sur le racisme aux États-Unis, est blanche, et c'est tout sauf un problème. "Detroit", le film de Kathryn Bigelow, sorti en salles mercredi 11 octobre, a fait l'objet aux Etats-Unis d'une intense polémique, liée au phénotype de la réalisatrice.Kathryn Bigelow, la réalisatrice de Detroit, film sur le racisme aux États-Unis, est blanche, et c'est tout sauf un problème En France, on n'a pas de films comme "Detro...

Caribbean American Law Professor “Karened” at Historic Black Pool in Fort Lauderdale By Vonnie Lee July 22, 2020 Caribbean American law professor Ghenete “G” Wright Muir and her son Masai, both members of the U.S. Masters Swimming Club, were the victims of racial profiling on Sunday at a swimming pool in the historically Black Joseph C. Carter Park in Fort Lauderdale. Wright Muir told CNW a white woman—later identified as Lani Kempner, a former professor at Broward College—who was swimming in the lane between Wright Muir and her son, told her she couldn’t talk across her lane. Wright Muir said when she pushed back, stating the lifeguard said there was no rule to support her request, and offered to switch lanes, Kempner refused and demanded that the park personnel call the police. According to Wright Muir, Fort Lauderda...

Behind the Numbers: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America BY JUDITH A. MORRISON FROM ISSUE: TRADE IS BACK!, SUMMER 2015 Understanding the needs of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples starts with asking the right questions.  Movement of the people: Protesting police violence in Brazil. Photo: Nacho Doce/Reuters 1.3K143 Share Lines Quality data helps governments address the impact of exclusion on societies as a whole Throughout Latin America, race and ethnicity continue to be among the most important determinants of access to opportunity and economic advancement. Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America represent 40 percent of the total population—a sizeable share—yet they remain a disproportionate segment of the poorest of the poor. While a priority for social inclusion measures, they have not seen the sharp reductions in poverty experienced by the overall population and are still more likely than the general population to live in extreme poverty. In countries ...

La question ethnique en France lundi 21 janvier 2030 Estimation personnelle de la réalité ethnique de la France métropolitaine d'aujourd'hui D'après mes estimations  voici à quoi ressemble la répartition ethnique de la France métropolitaine d'aujourd'hui : Population de la France métropolitaine : 63.140.000 habitants (2011) Dont Blancs                                   : 52.010.000 (82,37%) (inclut français de souche, personnes d'origine  européenne, personnes originaires des Balkans et du Caucase, juifs de France peu importe leur origine) Arabes et Moyen-Orientaux :   6.460.000 (10,23%) (inclut les personnes d'origine arabe, berbère, turque, kur...